Telegram-herald., 1887-07-09
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Stray Bits Of Entertaining Reading
Gathered from the Exchanges.
A hospital for animals viii soon be
erected in London, and at the same time
free dispensaries will be opened, where
the horses, donkeys, cats, dogs and birds
of the poor can be treated when i'll
The Swedes OF Chicago are going to
erect, in Lincoln park, $50, 600 monu-
ment 10 Linneus, the famous botanist.
The monument will be the finest in Chi
cago. and is TO be fac simile of the Lin
naus statue at Stockholm.
The Mercantile library Of New York
city waS founded and is entirely managed
by clerks. Any one. by paying the fec,
may become a member; but to hold ofhce,
or even 10 vote, one must he clerk or
working on salary in some mercantile
business.
4 New York firm viii manufacture
watches which cannot be spoiled, as COM
mon watches are. by being magnetized
when brought near electric wires or dyna-
mos They viii have a palladium hair
spring and non magnetic compensation
balance.
4 Tennessee mountaineer recently
found, under ledge of rocks. the sword
Of n Confederate officer. 1t proves to have
beionge 20 a captain who was killed in a
skirmish. aud one Of his command hid it
that II might not fall into the hands Of the
Union forces.
The burning Of the Paterson iron works
Il attributed to the English sparrow. The
sparrows have been noticed carrying straw
and other inhammable stuff and building
their nests among the girders, and il is
believed that the sparks lodging IN these
nests caused the Gre.
A scheme Is on foo. 20 establish home
for Scandinavian emigrants in Boston.
This Is Tot - take the form Of charity,
but 70 encourage the ScandiDavians to es-
ta0lish themselves in this country. II is
estimated hat so, 600 will be needed for
bnildin0. and a nucleus of $500 or
So eco Is already available.
\ remarkable drinking contest took
place in p saloon in Carson, New, re
Gently. remarkable because the liquid
was water The wager was $50, and the
man who won il drank eleven large
glasses of cold water. and was sone the
worse Tor IT, TIE other fellow drank nine
glasses aud became III.
Something new in contests over wilk
ia reported from Jersey court The tcs-
fator bequsathed all his property 10 the
prospective children II his son, who IS 4
youth ~ IS. and who finding himself
Nlfhouf means hss undertaken 20 tTe,s
tie wiu On the ground that bis father Was
aoi entirety oi sound mind
A Frenchman recently rode into Water.
vile Ne dTiving big Newfoundland
deg hitched 10 q smg,l two wheeled cart
which The animal had hauled inside q
three davs frsm town ia Canada. is
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tie dog could outstFiy ID days iousls
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fer The last thirty years. and SAYS his ex
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